OBJECTIVE Informed consent forms that are used prior to administering anaesthesia inform patients before any proposed surgical procedure or treatment. They should provide patients with sufficient information about the operation and treatment. Readibility refers to whether it is easy or hard for a reader to read and understand an available text, and this is evaluated via various formulas. The ai...

We present an initial examination on the impact text complexity has when incorporated into the recommendation process in community question answering sites. We use Read2Vec, a readability assessment tool designed to measure the readability level of short documents, to inform a traditional content-based recommendation strategy. The results highlight the benefits of incorporating readability info...

Reading is an important means of foreign language acquisition, particularly for vocabulary. Providing reading material that is of a suitable level of difficulty allows users to acquire vocabulary the most efficiently. Thus an on-line reading material recommender system for language learners requires a readability measure so that the difficulty of texts can be automatically assessed. However, mo...

BACKGROUND Health literacy impacts health outcomes. Health literacy is a measure of a person's competence to find, access, contextualize, and understand the information needed to make health decisions. Low levels of health literacy have been associated with poor health status. Health literacy can be enhanced by improving the readability of health literature. Misuse and abuse of prescription med...

In this paper we report the results of a pilot study of basing readability prediction on training data annotated with reading time. Although reading time is known to be a good metric for predicting readability, previous work has mainly focused on annotating the training data with subjective readability scores usually on a 1 to 5 scale. Instead of the subjective assessments of complexity, we use...

Readability assessment can play a role in the evaluation of a simplification algorithm as well as in the identification of what to simplify. While some previous research used traditional readability formulas to evaluate text simplification, there is little research into the utility of readability assessment for identifying and analyzing sentence level targets for text simplification. We explore...

We propose a novel algorithm for sentiment summarization that takes account of informativeness and readability, simultaneously. Our algorithm generates a summary by selecting and ordering sentences taken from multiple review texts according to two scores that represent the informativeness and readability of the sentence order. The informativeness score is defined by the number of sentiment expr...

The paper investigates the problem of sentence readability assessment, which is modelled as a classification task, with a specific view to text simplification. In particular, it addresses two open issues connected with it, i.e. the corpora to be used for training, and the identification of the most effective features to determine sentence readability. An existing readability assessment tool dev...

The development of the internet has facilitated the flow of information. However, this explosive growth of information has led to fundamental importance being overlooked: Reading material can be understood. Research on readability formulas aims to predict, to a reasonable extent, the degree to which a text can be understood. It does so mainly by analyzing and translating the information within ...

In general, people read texts and decide by themselves to measure levels of understandability and readability, which takes a lot of time and efforts. We believe visualizing readability gives intuitive impact on how difficult the texts will be before examining the texts further. Text visualization aims to provide structural characteristics of text contents in an efficient way. By using massive t...